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"pedigree" poems
Static, memories Emanating, separating   The postcard- perfect Still life speaks From its storied past. Invisible, to drift Among   The florid aphorisms, Ending in Deleterious debris, Aftermath of The inevitable. Empty room, echo hollow Tabula rasa - Carpet clean, quite candid in it's Return to callow. Consciousness athirst, Absorbing phenomena Effervesce, inquisitive Ideas foment, Sealed inside a question. The what - Against the narrow Scarcity, And fatigue of should. A tender malleable Youth, Betrayed, under An assumed decorum - Residue of truth, Flattened emotion Privations of a self Unheard; Misplaced affirmation, Buried pathologies   In architecture Fear manifests symbolic. Harboring apathy The lunacy of pious Pedigree, Import contagion, Fetters of benignity Doubt and indecision   Into ****** Cognizance, Fallow spirits Seep fumes of decay, Credulity bleeds a human stain. Social edifice, inoculated   Heirs of neurosis; Palpable, sensual pain And transience, though Tacit - remain, Our haunted history, The blind hyperbole, Maudlin Forbearance, this haven, A portrait Of immaculate condition, Nurtured with precision Under sterling pretense. Provincial domicile - House beautiful, Savage irony - Unseen treasure Innocence unabridged, Faces, tiny creations; Compliant vessels Wounded,   While modernism murmurs   Its promise. Brave New World, In a late model sedan, Domestic ranch on a Corner lot, Suburban natives, Silence means security. The misunderstood Speak louder - Consumerism beneath     Unvarnished ambition, Never could Repair the brokenness within... © 2011 & 2018 W. S. Warner
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Oct 20, 2011
Oct 20, 2011 at 5:38 PM UTC
Hollow
Static, memories Emanating, separating   The postcard- perfect Still life speaks From its storied past. Invisible, to drift Among   The florid aphorisms, Ending in Deleterious debris, Aftermath of The inevitable. Empty room, echo hollow Tabula rasa - Carpet clean, quite candid in it's Return to callow. Consciousness athirst, Absorbing phenomena Effervesce, inquisitive Ideas foment, Sealed inside a question. The what - Against the narrow Scarcity, And fatigue of should. A tender malleable Youth, Betrayed, under An assumed decorum - Residue of truth, Flattened emotion Privations of a self Unheard; Misplaced affirmation, Buried pathologies   In architecture Fear manifests symbolic. Harboring apathy The lunacy of pious Pedigree, Import contagion, Fetters of benignity Doubt and indecision   Into ****** Cognizance, Fallow spirits Seep fumes of decay, Credulity bleeds a human stain. Social edifice, inoculated   Heirs of neurosis; Palpable, sensual pain And transience, though Tacit - remain, Our haunted history, The blind hyperbole, Maudlin Forbearance, this haven, A portrait Of immaculate condition, Nurtured with precision Under sterling pretense. Provincial domicile - House beautiful, Savage irony - Unseen treasure Innocence unabridged, Faces, tiny creations; Compliant vessels Wounded,   While modernism murmurs   Its promise. Brave New World, In a late model sedan, Domestic ranch on a Corner lot, Suburban natives, Silence means security. The misunderstood Speak louder - Consumerism beneath     Unvarnished ambition, Never could Repair the brokenness within... © 2011 & 2018 W. S. Warner
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1708 Witchcraft has not a Pedigree ’Tis early as our Breath And mourners meet it going out The moment of our death—
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Witchcraft has not a Pedigree
What is freedom? Freedom is the ability to choose for yourself. Freedom is a choice between what is, and what can be. Freedom is empowering others to love themselves. What is your government? Who are these impostors who speak about the need to breath, but won’t let us? Who fights for freedom and equality? No one. These men fight against us for the slice of a pie, lining their pockets as kids in Africa die. The people shouldn't fear their government, the government should fear its people. What is the value of a dollar? Is it the freedom to eat? Or the cement wrapped tight around your feet, water forced between your teeth? Who is freer? The Baker Boy? Scraping by on a dime? Or old man flush with pedigree? Drunk with greed and the taste of fine wine? Freedom is being faced with two equally infallible truths, and choosing deftly between the two, which sounds better to you? Who is freer? Those who choose to drop f-bombs on stage, or those who drop bombs of wisdom in its place? Don’t be discouraged when the one locked down is you, when the wicked wage war in your home terrain, when you struggle back and forth, with the pain of being raised a Jew. Who decides your fate? Who decides your fate when your rent is late? Who decides your fate when you discover your son is gay? Who decides your fate when the crest falls flat? Who decides your fate when the tumor is malignant? Who decides your fate when your sutures fall out? Who decides your fate when you find you've lost your way? Who decides your fate when the embers die down? Who decides your fate when sorrow silently drips across your face? Who decides your fate when the voices inside your head can’t seem to agree? You, your life is yours to create. What bars our freedom? Oppression, Persecution, Indecision, Doubt, Hatred, Contention, Jealousy, Addiction, Pride, And most importantly of all, (Silence) Fear. Yes! Fear is no friend of freedom, Antithesis to the dream. Fear is a struggling shadow, Cast behind us as we gleam. Contrast, Darkness exists through the brightness of the sun. Our predisposition isn't for failure, But bursting forth grasping for freedom’s sake. Don’t settle for sickly shadows, Accept only warm smiles between friends at the end of the day. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of freedom, The march of liberty. Fear isn't the courage to stand up for a friend, Fear isn't the strength to share what you believe in, Fear isn't holding a friends hand when they've lost their sight, Fear isn't within a friend’s victory finding only delight, But freedom is!
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 4:26 AM UTC
To Be Determined
What is freedom? Freedom is the ability to choose for yourself. Freedom is a choice between what is, and what can be. Freedom is empowering others to love themselves. What is your government? Who are these impostors who speak about the need to breath, but won’t let us? Who fights for freedom and equality? No one. These men fight against us for the slice of a pie, lining their pockets as kids in Africa die. The people shouldn't fear their government, the government should fear its people. What is the value of a dollar? Is it the freedom to eat? Or the cement wrapped tight around your feet, water forced between your teeth? Who is freer? The Baker Boy? Scraping by on a dime? Or old man flush with pedigree? Drunk with greed and the taste of fine wine? Freedom is being faced with two equally infallible truths, and choosing deftly between the two, which sounds better to you? Who is freer? Those who choose to drop f-bombs on stage, or those who drop bombs of wisdom in its place? Don’t be discouraged when the one locked down is you, when the wicked wage war in your home terrain, when you struggle back and forth, with the pain of being raised a Jew. Who decides your fate? Who decides your fate when your rent is late? Who decides your fate when you discover your son is gay? Who decides your fate when the crest falls flat? Who decides your fate when the tumor is malignant? Who decides your fate when your sutures fall out? Who decides your fate when you find you've lost your way? Who decides your fate when the embers die down? Who decides your fate when sorrow silently drips across your face? Who decides your fate when the voices inside your head can’t seem to agree? You, your life is yours to create. What bars our freedom? Oppression, Persecution, Indecision, Doubt, Hatred, Contention, Jealousy, Addiction, Pride, And most importantly of all, (Silence) Fear. Yes! Fear is no friend of freedom, Antithesis to the dream. Fear is a struggling shadow, Cast behind us as we gleam. Contrast, Darkness exists through the brightness of the sun. Our predisposition isn't for failure, But bursting forth grasping for freedom’s sake. Don’t settle for sickly shadows, Accept only warm smiles between friends at the end of the day. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of freedom, The march of liberty. Fear isn't the courage to stand up for a friend, Fear isn't the strength to share what you believe in, Fear isn't holding a friends hand when they've lost their sight, Fear isn't within a friend’s victory finding only delight, But freedom is!
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Look on me dearly: your stolen sullied sullen daughter. I could dig you up to hold your bones but want only to wash myself away, like white foam from the seashore. If I burn what is buried, is it cremation or disintegration? You would fly ashes in the wind, like a wish given lift, like an altar of lit incense. Think of learning of your blood: yellow skin and rice paddies and great-great-great-great-granddaddy grey for the Confederacy. Do two halves not one whole soul make? I take a breath and leave it free.
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Sep 22, 2021
Sep 22, 2021 at 1:28 PM UTC
Pedigree
1627 The pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee, Nor lineage of Ecstasy Delay the Butterfly On spangle journeys to the peak Of some perceiveless thing— The right of way to Tripoli A more essential thing. — The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee— A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy—
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The pedigree of Honey
Where's the ventriloquist throwing voices around like whistling stray dogs the voice and the vision a crystal ***** whispering with mud in the mouth the ***** doesn't lie a yammering vantwilaquist who's voice springs from a blood cream corridor with electric lips and rainbow flesh a lost beast dazzled in endless wander lust in search of a scarlet women surrounded only by aspiring virgins sworn to be true by desolations caress in black ash weddings with white frilly dresses weeping for delicate cruelties they will never know his father a falling star his soul an undulating cobalt shrine to her who he can not find a catalog of discrepancies a noxious experiment with a wandering eye lust ****** embattled between reason and passion is that look your giving me shorthand psychic humiliation for my vile indiscretions I'm trembling to visit upon you I'm wearing my face like window dressing hiding the obscenity of my true will behind a curled lip eyes down cast hoping to use you like a vacant room to smear the walls and floors with your flesh like ************ glitter too bad i'm outnumbered by good people there are sky-fulls of them agitated with moral concerns ruining my life with logic those scoundrels got pedigree ideologies religion folded ears and moving lips all monkeys see and monkeys do who are they and were is their ventriloquist
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Aug 21, 2017
Aug 21, 2017 at 12:41 PM UTC
THE VANTRWILAQUIST
The daughter of the village Maire Is very fresh and very fair, A dazzling eyeful; She throws upon me such a spell That though my love I dare not tell, My heart is sighful. She has the cutest brown caniche, The French for "poodle" on a leash, While I have Bingo; A dog of doubtful pedigree, Part pug or pom or chow maybe, But full of stingo. The daughter of the village Maire Would like to speak with me, I'll swear, In her sweet lingo; But parlez-vous I find a bore, For I am British to the core, And so is Bingo Yet just to-day as we passed by, Our two dogs haulted eye to eye, In friendly poses; Oh, how I hope to-morrow they Will wag their tails in merry play, And rub their noses. * * * * * * * The daughter of the village Maire Today gave me a frigid stare, My hopes are blighted. I'll tell you how it came to pass . . . Last evening in the Square, alas! My sweet I sighted; And as she sauntered with her pet, Her dainty, her adored Frolette, I cried: "By Jingo!" Well, call it chance or call it fate, I made a dash . . . Too late, too late! Oh, naughty Bingo! The daughter of the village Maire That you'll forgive me, is my prayer And also Bingo. You should have shielded your caniche: You saw my dog strain on his leash And like a spring go. They say that Love will find a way - It definitely did, that day . . . Oh, canine noodles! Now it is only left to me To wonder - will your offspring be Poms, pugs or poodles?
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Bingo
obsessed dexterity, less than steadily resident of a dreadful destiny festering breath, resting readily weaponry of a four legged legacy blessed be the death of pleasantry presently pressed, a lesser pedigree a specialty of a deadly heredity expressed regression, distressed longevity
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 11:14 PM UTC
jealousy
Defining Lego Moment? What is that, I don’t own one! Life growing up was unacceptable – it was chemical and dispensable My life has never been a bed-and-breakfast - early childhood memories got me ill and susceptible Tryin’ to find a good early childhood memory is like NOT passing “the test”, because I wasn’t in class. So I ask, what’s next? Defining moments were replaced by worries and doubts, fears and shouts My, oh my, why couldn’t I have been brought up in someone else’s house?   I’m just me. So why can’t anyone see I’ve got dreams I want to turn into reality? I know, maybe I’m adopted! Oh, I could only wish that I belonged to a different home So who knows, maybe I’m supposed to grow old in a world where survival is at the core of my bones Future me, I hope that you see, I’m not like them, nor do I ever want to be “like them” -----------------Fast forward to today --------------------- I thank GOD for the life I was given and the road that was driven I’m here because of those dreams which started out as fears - I’m what I am because of those years I know that I wouldn’t’ be here if it wasn’t for those days of dysfunction and tears I’m at a junction in my life - I’ve realized that my unction in life is an exponential function that shines like a bright light My tears have been replaced with people who are sincere and true I no longer have to worry about the black and blue, now I can simply wave ado… So I chose to become not what I saw, but what I knew was right in my heart. I leaned on God and learned from stressful nights that choosing the road less taken was all part of this plight And here we are today…. Now, what does this say, about me? It says that I’m a child of Destiny, not a child of Disney It says that I’m a child of God not a child of the Devil It says that I am… Predestined presently, sensibly created even though I didn’t come from the best pedigree...
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 1:52 PM UTC
Defining Lego Moment [Slam Poetry]
Defining Lego Moment? What is that, I don’t own one! Life growing up was unacceptable – it was chemical and dispensable My life has never been a bed-and-breakfast - early childhood memories got me ill and susceptible Tryin’ to find a good early childhood memory is like NOT passing “the test”, because I wasn’t in class. So I ask, what’s next? Defining moments were replaced by worries and doubts, fears and shouts My, oh my, why couldn’t I have been brought up in someone else’s house?   I’m just me. So why can’t anyone see I’ve got dreams I want to turn into reality? I know, maybe I’m adopted! Oh, I could only wish that I belonged to a different home So who knows, maybe I’m supposed to grow old in a world where survival is at the core of my bones Future me, I hope that you see, I’m not like them, nor do I ever want to be “like them” -----------------Fast forward to today --------------------- I thank GOD for the life I was given and the road that was driven I’m here because of those dreams which started out as fears - I’m what I am because of those years I know that I wouldn’t’ be here if it wasn’t for those days of dysfunction and tears I’m at a junction in my life - I’ve realized that my unction in life is an exponential function that shines like a bright light My tears have been replaced with people who are sincere and true I no longer have to worry about the black and blue, now I can simply wave ado… So I chose to become not what I saw, but what I knew was right in my heart. I leaned on God and learned from stressful nights that choosing the road less taken was all part of this plight And here we are today…. Now, what does this say, about me? It says that I’m a child of Destiny, not a child of Disney It says that I’m a child of God not a child of the Devil It says that I am… Predestined presently, sensibly created even though I didn’t come from the best pedigree...
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Rise! Oh, Mighty Jupiter; Our Father now forgotten. Come claim your rightful reverence. Your pagan pedigree misgotten. You were once our Shining Father; Great King of all the Sky. But you allowed your world to set so a new Son could arise. Zeus once ruled before you, and Jesus became your heir. Today not many realize how we got from here to there. I have considered for some moments how our thoughts of god do change. Plural notions of so long ago, today can seem so strange. We like to think we've come so far, since those pagan days of yore. Have we abandoned superstition or just embraced it even more? It was millennia ago that Zeus ruled Mount Olympus. He, their leader, more than father, often beaten by hubris. The Greeks, they worshiped leaders, seeking standing in this forum. Such desires, democratic became their gods that ruled before them. As the centuries moved on, your new Latin home was Roma. Your title too, transformed to reflect a new persona. To Zeus we added "Father", or in Latin, pater, we prefer. So Zeus, becomes Zeus-pater, Zupater, then Jupiter. Our names for gods reveal exactly how they fill our needs. Over time our needs evolve and so a new name supersedes. As Rome aged, it developed   a need to know god as a man. To be one of his number. To see themselves as of his clan. This zeus, he can be talked to, can be greeted and be known. They "Hail Zeus" as HeyZeus. And now its Jesus on the Throne. Through such inquests we can see the needs Gods fill evolving, from cold, covetous Kings to a begotten Son absolving. We imagine in the Heavens things to help us understand, how a universe so endless can be the realm alone of man.
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Jan 15, 2017
Jan 15, 2017 at 5:53 PM UTC
Jupiter Ascending
Rise! Oh, Mighty Jupiter; Our Father now forgotten. Come claim your rightful reverence. Your pagan pedigree misgotten. You were once our Shining Father; Great King of all the Sky. But you allowed your world to set so a new Son could arise. Zeus once ruled before you, and Jesus became your heir. Today not many realize how we got from here to there. I have considered for some moments how our thoughts of god do change. Plural notions of so long ago, today can seem so strange. We like to think we've come so far, since those pagan days of yore. Have we abandoned superstition or just embraced it even more? It was millennia ago that Zeus ruled Mount Olympus. He, their leader, more than father, often beaten by hubris. The Greeks, they worshiped leaders, seeking standing in this forum. Such desires, democratic became their gods that ruled before them. As the centuries moved on, your new Latin home was Roma. Your title too, transformed to reflect a new persona. To Zeus we added "Father", or in Latin, pater, we prefer. So Zeus, becomes Zeus-pater, Zupater, then Jupiter. Our names for gods reveal exactly how they fill our needs. Over time our needs evolve and so a new name supersedes. As Rome aged, it developed   a need to know god as a man. To be one of his number. To see themselves as of his clan. This zeus, he can be talked to, can be greeted and be known. They "Hail Zeus" as HeyZeus. And now its Jesus on the Throne. Through such inquests we can see the needs Gods fill evolving, from cold, covetous Kings to a begotten Son absolving. We imagine in the Heavens things to help us understand, how a universe so endless can be the realm alone of man.
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Why must we stay Where we don't belong? Why must we stay Where we don't belong? Because there's never gonna be enough space So eat the meek Savor the taste It's always gonna be a delicacy Lick your chops And eat the meek Why must we stay Where we don't belong? Why must we stay Where we don't belong? Don't belong The factory mass producing fear, bottled, capped Distributed near and far Sold for a reasonable price And the people, They love it, they feed it Brush with it, bathe with it, breathe it Inject it direct to the blood It seems to be replacing love Why must we stay Where we don't belong? Why must we stay Where we don't belong? Don't belong Because there's always gonna be token truth Forgotten code Discarded youth You know there's always gonna be pedigree One own the air One pay to breathe Why must we stay Where we don't belong? Why must we stay where we don't belong? Why must we stay where we don't belong? Don't belong...
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Nov 11, 2016
Nov 11, 2016 at 5:36 AM UTC
Eat the Meek
Let's face it its more ******** warfare culturally they are used to faking it as thimbles and chipolatas in ninety seconds do not reach first base much less seeing stars on cloud nine hence they woke and fake the reality they chose be it feel or fright in woke solidarity against frustrations they cloned their made-up foe what better than sturdy shining Mandingo loaded and tied up there for the having to your heart's content presented to you the untamed beast the wild moor tooled hot and ready raw animalistic unfettered passion rock hard we can name him Rocky that goer that delivers every time the one that is all your men aren't and can never be cause he's gifted sleek like dolphin in rhythmic glide tasty like fresh clean mushroom Arabian stallion if ever there's one with absolute pedigree and class take a break from the mediocre from the wham bangs no can dos from the floppy quick-draws saps imagine the dark horse with the most in smooth soft pink leathery velvet tis your secret your guilty pleasure tis the obsession you made into a war the fantasy that plays in your heads tis behind fervours that haunts you that you so well disguise in hatred telling metaphors slip out Freud hold him down, grind him hard wear him out, let's wreck him so the sado masochistic 'punishing him' give him a hard time, it all says a lot you twist innocent sentences into ****** innuendos and innocent actions are falsely given ****** meanings as morn noon and night you toil you troll and agitate for attention yes you twist turn  bite and nibble in Freudian throes you talk love you glaze unrequited love relentlessly you close your eyes and dream sweet pain yeah! get real, its no psyche warfare its a flutters obsession, it's the classic ' "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." its how you float your boats and and get yer thrills you better face it you're all addicted It's an ******** War-fare and you all know so.....
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Jun 22, 2021
Jun 22, 2021 at 7:11 AM UTC
My pinky for a horse.....
Let's face it its more ******** warfare culturally they are used to faking it as thimbles and chipolatas in ninety seconds do not reach first base much less seeing stars on cloud nine hence they woke and fake the reality they chose be it feel or fright in woke solidarity against frustrations they cloned their made-up foe what better than sturdy shining Mandingo loaded and tied up there for the having to your heart's content presented to you the untamed beast the wild moor tooled hot and ready raw animalistic unfettered passion rock hard we can name him Rocky that goer that delivers every time the one that is all your men aren't and can never be cause he's gifted sleek like dolphin in rhythmic glide tasty like fresh clean mushroom Arabian stallion if ever there's one with absolute pedigree and class take a break from the mediocre from the wham bangs no can dos from the floppy quick-draws saps imagine the dark horse with the most in smooth soft pink leathery velvet tis your secret your guilty pleasure tis the obsession you made into a war the fantasy that plays in your heads tis behind fervours that haunts you that you so well disguise in hatred telling metaphors slip out Freud hold him down, grind him hard wear him out, let's wreck him so the sado masochistic 'punishing him' give him a hard time, it all says a lot you twist innocent sentences into ****** innuendos and innocent actions are falsely given ****** meanings as morn noon and night you toil you troll and agitate for attention yes you twist turn  bite and nibble in Freudian throes you talk love you glaze unrequited love relentlessly you close your eyes and dream sweet pain yeah! get real, its no psyche warfare its a flutters obsession, it's the classic ' "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." its how you float your boats and and get yer thrills you better face it you're all addicted It's an ******** War-fare and you all know so.....
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A perfect man for me was never moulded by a box, A box that screamed multitude of labels To satiate the chaotic minds of society, A belonging judged by feudality, no rhyme or reason required or questioned. A perfect man for me was never measured by material things, He gives abundantly by just being around, An illuminating source of comfort on the other end listening, Empathising and leaving a trail of laughter that makes me fall even deeper. A perfect man for me was never masked crusader (okay, maybe Batman sometimes), He is maskless for the world to bask in his genuity, No bounds or limitations set on his acts of kindness and love, Selfless and generous with his time, blind to any creed or pedigree. A perfect man for me was never one to run away from problems, Valiantly facing the raging bulls head on, Inner strength personified by his poise and determination, "I will get through this unscathed and no one will stop me". A perfect man for me was never an owner of a cold crackled heart, Headstrong, gallantly keeps the family together in a bind of unconditional love, Lovingly adores his sunshine, making sure she knows she is loved with the same fervour, Day in and day out, void of complains and pettiness, as the world turns. A perfect man for me was never perfect, Owning up to his flaws and shortcomings and being aware of mine, A cycle that is never vicious but one that is laced with acceptance and non-judgments, He inspires the best version of myself as he aspires to better himself. A perfect man for me spells Y-O-U, And the way that you are is exactly how I love Y-O-U. Shalini Nayar 24.11.14 (C) 2014
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 9:51 AM UTC
My Perfect Man
A perfect man for me was never moulded by a box, A box that screamed multitude of labels To satiate the chaotic minds of society, A belonging judged by feudality, no rhyme or reason required or questioned. A perfect man for me was never measured by material things, He gives abundantly by just being around, An illuminating source of comfort on the other end listening, Empathising and leaving a trail of laughter that makes me fall even deeper. A perfect man for me was never masked crusader (okay, maybe Batman sometimes), He is maskless for the world to bask in his genuity, No bounds or limitations set on his acts of kindness and love, Selfless and generous with his time, blind to any creed or pedigree. A perfect man for me was never one to run away from problems, Valiantly facing the raging bulls head on, Inner strength personified by his poise and determination, "I will get through this unscathed and no one will stop me". A perfect man for me was never an owner of a cold crackled heart, Headstrong, gallantly keeps the family together in a bind of unconditional love, Lovingly adores his sunshine, making sure she knows she is loved with the same fervour, Day in and day out, void of complains and pettiness, as the world turns. A perfect man for me was never perfect, Owning up to his flaws and shortcomings and being aware of mine, A cycle that is never vicious but one that is laced with acceptance and non-judgments, He inspires the best version of myself as he aspires to better himself. A perfect man for me spells Y-O-U, And the way that you are is exactly how I love Y-O-U. Shalini Nayar 24.11.14 (C) 2014
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She was Calamity Jane, and, he, a ******* of pedigree pain, not all were lost, a gloomy sunshine was born out of that stormy liaison.
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Nov 18, 2012
Nov 18, 2012 at 9:45 PM UTC
Birth of gloomy sunshine
No face to be proud of And my pedigree's blown off; Free hugs that no one notices, A lips that beat white lotuses— I'm no ones best And everybody's last and less, I'm only here existing, Standing while breathing, Into the world I'm blending; Maybe my luck has long snuffed out— Long used up when doctors pulled me out.
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Sep 21, 2025
Sep 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM UTC
all used up
The land of the free. With so many people of pedigree. Which makes us sounds like a dog. As, we try to describe the way we are. When speaking about our heritage. I'm Irish American. I'm Italian American. I'm African American. Or European American. When simply stated about your race. If you're American born. You're American. Verified and validated. To be real. To be true. We're not complete sure who's what? And who is who? We just needs to correct ourself. About, who we are? Or think we are. You might be American of Italian descent. You might be American of African descent. You might be American of Asian descent. Or American of Irish descent. Or European descent. Where we all might be mixed to be kins? When we think of only being friends. We only see black and white in one country. Which I never fiqure out the color. None of the skin identify to the race. But we see B and W on many application forms. Which I have never figure out why? Or less it's to discriminate from hiring. But we always seems to blend in as one. When some one attacks your country from a war. Then color becomes second nature to us. When we proudly states what country we belong. And heritage doesn't get mention at all
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 10:11 AM UTC
American Heritage
Who will forgive me for the things I do? With no special legend of God to refer to, With my calm white pedigree, my yankee kin, I think it would be better to be a Jew. I forgive you for what you did not do. I am impossibly quilty. Unlike you, My Friend, I can not blame my origin With no special legend or God to refer to. They wear The Crucifix as they are meant to do. Why do their little crosses trouble you? The effigies that I have made are genuine, (I think it would be better to be a Jew). Watching my mother slowly die I knew My first release. I wish some ancient bugaboo Followed me. But my sin is always my sin. With no special legend or God to refer to. Who will forgive me for the things I do? To have your reasonable hurt to belong to Might ease my trouble like liquor or aspirin. I think it would be better to be a Jew. And if I lie, I lie because I love you, Because I am bothered by the things I do, Because your hurt invades my calm white skin: With no special legend or God to refer to, I think it would be better to be a Jew.
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My Friend, My Friend
By: Cedric McClester She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Which means - she’s beyond contempt Someone to be loathed An anomaly? Well if you’re askin me She’s what every one of ‘em Pretends to be A centrist Who might go either way On any issue On any given day She likes to calls it A winning strategy But it’s still selling out As far as I can see She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes But with the right pedigree As everybody knows She’s very bright That’s obvious - it shows Though you’ll find her Wherever the wind blows I often wonder Who she really is Behind the mask I’m talkin ‘bout square biz It’s hard to tell With the naked eye How she really feels Though some of us do try She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Her popularity Is always in the throes We love her one-minute Then hate her the next She brings out feelings That are that complex She’s very hard For us to get to know How much is real And how much is for show That’s the question On many people’s minds What’s goin on Behind those closed blinds She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Who’ll run for president One day I suppose She’s very suited For the life she chose A prodigy Who won't be unopposed There’s so much baggage In her sordid past The kind of thing That usually tends to last She’ll ascend But then she’ll drop so fast Say what you will The dye’s already cast She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Who has a war chest That grows and grows and grows She’s courted equally By the rich and poor With the kind of access That many would die for But still she’s baffling To say the very least It’s hard to tell The nature of the beast And to add insult Along with injury Is we don’t know How she's gonna be She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Who lost my vote But that’s just how it goes When one has trouble Being who they are It doesn’t matter That they’re a rising star I can’t support her Under any circumstance It would be foolish To even take that chance Though I do like her I have to admit I’ll vote against her Or maybe I’ll just sit © Copyright 2015, Cedric McClester - all rights reserved.
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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 10:31 PM UTC
A REPUBLICAN IN DEMOCRATIC CLOTHES
By: Cedric McClester She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Which means - she’s beyond contempt Someone to be loathed An anomaly? Well if you’re askin me She’s what every one of ‘em Pretends to be A centrist Who might go either way On any issue On any given day She likes to calls it A winning strategy But it’s still selling out As far as I can see She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes But with the right pedigree As everybody knows She’s very bright That’s obvious - it shows Though you’ll find her Wherever the wind blows I often wonder Who she really is Behind the mask I’m talkin ‘bout square biz It’s hard to tell With the naked eye How she really feels Though some of us do try She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Her popularity Is always in the throes We love her one-minute Then hate her the next She brings out feelings That are that complex She’s very hard For us to get to know How much is real And how much is for show That’s the question On many people’s minds What’s goin on Behind those closed blinds She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Who’ll run for president One day I suppose She’s very suited For the life she chose A prodigy Who won't be unopposed There’s so much baggage In her sordid past The kind of thing That usually tends to last She’ll ascend But then she’ll drop so fast Say what you will The dye’s already cast She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Who has a war chest That grows and grows and grows She’s courted equally By the rich and poor With the kind of access That many would die for But still she’s baffling To say the very least It’s hard to tell The nature of the beast And to add insult Along with injury Is we don’t know How she's gonna be She’s a Republican In Democratic clothes Who lost my vote But that’s just how it goes When one has trouble Being who they are It doesn’t matter That they’re a rising star I can’t support her Under any circumstance It would be foolish To even take that chance Though I do like her I have to admit I’ll vote against her Or maybe I’ll just sit © Copyright 2015, Cedric McClester - all rights reserved.
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Here lies my dog, motionless in his kennel unable to wag his tail as he always did. Yesterday when I saw him, curling helpless on his mat he still wagged his tail and from him arose a faint tremolo of love punctuated by gutturals of pain. At some bleak hour of the night, the last ember of life died down and his supple body turned stiff and stark. Now he lies straight and majestic in death leaving a track record of love far difficult to break, - a love no vessel can hold or equated with what we humans feel. Speechless as I stand, memories churn within. He came to us - too young to be weaned, a glossy black puppy with tawny gleaming eyes. His short, sturdy limbs, large drooping ears, slender waist and elongated frame well proclaimed his pedigree aloud So full of mischief, he capered and hopped, like a new born calf, always up on his heels. Sniffing with moist nose, he dug and dug as if unearthing a treasure trove buried deep beneath the soil. With alert vigil, he guarded our home, barking at strangers and driving rodents away He expected nothing in turn but love. His loyalty as we deem was never servile. Never was he on chains to be hauled like cattle. He enjoyed sauntering through the courtyard giving company as we took our evening rounds. He gloated rubbing his body over our knee and sat content as our stroking fingers ran all around Licking our feet and arms, what he conveyed in inarticulate words could be deciphered thus - ‘I love you, love you true’ Like the bouncing ball, he often played with our hearts made to bounce up in love and our hands fold in benison for a comrade who departs, valiant in life and loyal to the core hoping to meet him anon on the far green meadows of bliss, still wagging his tail, avowing a bond too strong to be snapped or splintered.
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Jun 1, 2016
Jun 1, 2016 at 8:57 AM UTC
A Tribute to my Dog
Here lies my dog, motionless in his kennel unable to wag his tail as he always did. Yesterday when I saw him, curling helpless on his mat he still wagged his tail and from him arose a faint tremolo of love punctuated by gutturals of pain. At some bleak hour of the night, the last ember of life died down and his supple body turned stiff and stark. Now he lies straight and majestic in death leaving a track record of love far difficult to break, - a love no vessel can hold or equated with what we humans feel. Speechless as I stand, memories churn within. He came to us - too young to be weaned, a glossy black puppy with tawny gleaming eyes. His short, sturdy limbs, large drooping ears, slender waist and elongated frame well proclaimed his pedigree aloud So full of mischief, he capered and hopped, like a new born calf, always up on his heels. Sniffing with moist nose, he dug and dug as if unearthing a treasure trove buried deep beneath the soil. With alert vigil, he guarded our home, barking at strangers and driving rodents away He expected nothing in turn but love. His loyalty as we deem was never servile. Never was he on chains to be hauled like cattle. He enjoyed sauntering through the courtyard giving company as we took our evening rounds. He gloated rubbing his body over our knee and sat content as our stroking fingers ran all around Licking our feet and arms, what he conveyed in inarticulate words could be deciphered thus - ‘I love you, love you true’ Like the bouncing ball, he often played with our hearts made to bounce up in love and our hands fold in benison for a comrade who departs, valiant in life and loyal to the core hoping to meet him anon on the far green meadows of bliss, still wagging his tail, avowing a bond too strong to be snapped or splintered.
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Eucalyptus filled air Sheets of warm and cold air Early tasmac drinkers Weary eyed dads Bye bye -ing mommies Dung splattering cows whipped pedigree dogs Scared insects Proud birds Flowers with an attitude The pig A hero Swarmed stinking Dirtiest of them all And a early morning feast Charming brown eyed street dogs Question marked trees Washed pavements Drooling men Betel chewing glaring women Girls in floral blouses sweeping Sh -sh -sh -sh -sh Autos rrrrrr Shock absorbing nike shoes krr krr krrr krr A cigarette **** A sad memory Pushed aside By the brush of a hand pushed to a remote corner Hidden another memory a recent one with a scaredy cat Which i want to share and party with Was vivid Ornamented ladies lighting lamps to a dead god Guarded by vain priests Obesience and giving life for people Lost in hope and fear A parallel existence Corporates blaring into phones Fit men playing tennis Small sturdy grass Petite flowers Swaying and dancing Everlasting Everlasting ? Is it a will or maybe or a should be ?
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 1:58 AM UTC
A WALK
Brushwork If I were a jazz pianist I would pay my dues in one lump sum on a tip from some country singer on his way down who gives me the shirt off his back a Nudie with piping and plenty of rhinestones that catch the stage lights just so and sweep in reflection across the polished planes of my 1890 rosewood Steinway Grand Modal C a beaut with a pedigree, one I won’t fail to mention from the stage in the second set during the pause between How High The Moon and I Love The Life I Live from behind a bobbing cigarette, sharing the remarkable fact that this is the very same piano Mose Allison played in a two night stand at the Blue Note in 1962. Later I’ll work Jimmy the trumpet player’s name into a tune and trade winks with the guy on upright bass the drummer slack jawed oblivious, lost to us all in some very tasty brushwork.
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Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 7:49 AM UTC
Brushwork
Just what do we know about Ward Churchill? That radical agitator, That Colorado college professor Most famous for calling Twin Tower 9/11 dead technocrats Little Eichmanns. Noteworthy is the fact that The United States Supreme Court Denied certiorari, Passed on hearing his claim of Unlawful discharge. Unlawful discharge? Sounds felonious and vile: Like pus laced with ***** A criminal secretion, like mucus Smuggled past Customs: Vaginal contraband. Sorry, Ward. We just don’t give a **** Your fake Indian pedigree, Your bogus Vietnam fairytales, Your phony combat record, Your forward ops recon Way out in ******* Cambodia, Fall flat like Buffalo turds. You’ve been slick, Ward. Hired originally to fill Some gratuitous affirmative action quota, Denied tenure in two legitimate departments, You create some ******** academic discipline For campus freaks & geeks. Self-appointed Department Chairman, A fraudulent college professor from the start, Once tenured, a courageous warrior for free speech. Describing Native American history as genocide. Summing up American history as Holocaust denial. Professor Churchill was all of these things, And less. But using the Holocaust metaphor To anchor one’s fakakta politics? That was the proverbial last straw, The camel buster, if you will. Especially since most of the Stockbrokers & market analysts Crushed in the rubble were Jewish. Hava Nagila, Babaloo!
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 9:45 PM UTC
"Ward Churchill's Little Eichmanns"
Today I lost a dear friend. She loved with unconditional love; the type you can not buy or barter she would instinctively know when I was near and would wait patiently by the front door a 6th sense beyond what we see or what we hear what we think we heard or what we thought we saw. She had golden hair with flecks of mottled brown smiling eyes that knew friend from foe loyally walk side by side without fear in the darkest places where ever we would go I remember that time before; id broken up with a girl of 5 years she knew something hidden was very wrong, although I hid the tears, let the feelings cower she sat upon my legs, a paw on each shoulder nestled her head into my neck and hugged me for at least an hour She was a lady of grace, with the poise of pedigree with an open heart for those close she loved; her immediate family, close friends and me. She would've made a winning frisbee catcher that'll be the greyhound whippet in her genes zig zag sprinting faster than the wind itself hares and foxes was her excited prize lay low among the undergrowth unseen other than her piercing forever watching eyes Yesterday, like any other day she dug for stones chased her reflection on the water and stood guard as we slept little did we know the excitment of a fox to chase would stop her heart and for hours after my father, who kept his emotions in check, was left speechless and bereft   as he uncontrollably wept. Today I lost a dear friend, a companion like no other an amalgamated sense of loss, like a sister from another mother. Her last breaths, there are no words to look upon her slowly glazing eyes wrapped in a shroud and placed in a box she will be sorely missed departed from the ones she loved to the land of the chasing fox; muted words exchanged - the last goodbye the forever kiss. Corrie Rest in Peace 1999 - 2013
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 8:45 AM UTC
Forever Chasing Foxes
Today I lost a dear friend. She loved with unconditional love; the type you can not buy or barter she would instinctively know when I was near and would wait patiently by the front door a 6th sense beyond what we see or what we hear what we think we heard or what we thought we saw. She had golden hair with flecks of mottled brown smiling eyes that knew friend from foe loyally walk side by side without fear in the darkest places where ever we would go I remember that time before; id broken up with a girl of 5 years she knew something hidden was very wrong, although I hid the tears, let the feelings cower she sat upon my legs, a paw on each shoulder nestled her head into my neck and hugged me for at least an hour She was a lady of grace, with the poise of pedigree with an open heart for those close she loved; her immediate family, close friends and me. She would've made a winning frisbee catcher that'll be the greyhound whippet in her genes zig zag sprinting faster than the wind itself hares and foxes was her excited prize lay low among the undergrowth unseen other than her piercing forever watching eyes Yesterday, like any other day she dug for stones chased her reflection on the water and stood guard as we slept little did we know the excitment of a fox to chase would stop her heart and for hours after my father, who kept his emotions in check, was left speechless and bereft   as he uncontrollably wept. Today I lost a dear friend, a companion like no other an amalgamated sense of loss, like a sister from another mother. Her last breaths, there are no words to look upon her slowly glazing eyes wrapped in a shroud and placed in a box she will be sorely missed departed from the ones she loved to the land of the chasing fox; muted words exchanged - the last goodbye the forever kiss. Corrie Rest in Peace 1999 - 2013
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A term of endearment A pure bread Pedigree Imbecile The firing squad on parade on the thoroughfare The death squads are on patrol for run on sentences and chemical runoff The peer mediators tell us all to calm down The rapscallions try to push us into their get-rich-quick schemes And the shut-ins settle down with their mail ordered brides The wallflowers tell everyone to go to hell with great brio I guess I'll see them there It won't be much of an endeavor It'll be like a dog finding its way home The blood brothers perturb everyone else Telling them their open blood pact is BYOB Then starting a be-in singing Come all ye faithful and Kumbaya It all comes full circle, monkey see monkey do
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Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
"Whoa, just take it easy man"
Just to level with ya I'm not on a level with ya I'm my super futuristic swag ish The kinda ish you cant cope with Nine Lives No worries the mayans calendar brought no end for me I'm an entity Reincarnated many times past They say seeing is believing Watch how my soul last Throughout time like a fine wine I'll make my impression Take note of this life lesson many have tried but there is really no one like me I come from dimensions ascended from queens Supreme being Check my pedigree Things mere mortals can't see or even relate to If I were you I would bow down to my greatness in front of you No reason for the southern hospitality But no confusion or illusion I'm a southern girl until they bury me Only the deep can contemplate the inner working mechanisms of this story Destined for greatness Leaving my mark embarking on this journey I'm under appreciated So I emancipated my mindset And went on a diet dropped alot of dead weight To think with a higher realm of reason Lest we forget I speak with foreign tongue To those who can't comprehend my exsistence So in close i'm me I'll never be residual top notch first round draft pick I'm a truly unique individual I dont know another way to be
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Feb 20, 2013
Feb 20, 2013 at 3:01 PM UTC
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